Why would one want this feature?

The "Copy music to itunes folder etc" is the default setting...why would anyone want double the files? All this does is fill up your hard drive faster... Is there an advantage?

I organize them myself...thats the only reason?
Pretty much. I like it because it makes moving the library to a different hard drive or computer really easy. Also, if you have multiple computers, it makes copying individual songs or albums into iTunes a bit easier on the other computers, too: just mount the drive with the song on the desktop, then drag the song into iTunes. iTunes copies the song across the network and into that iTunes' library. It save one step, though it's admittedly not a very big step.
But if you organize them yourself, then there's probably no real advantage for you.
charlie

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Why would one want to create a whole AM data model manually?

Is there ANY reasonable scenario in the world where a programmer might want to re-create a whole data model inside an AM programmatically?

Perhaps you're trying to solve the wrong problem? If the true objective is "to retrieve data as quickly as possible," perhaps you should investigate a database rather than trying to squeeze things into the smallest possible memory footprint? You'd have to have some pretty hefty hardware to keep "millions" of records in memory in addition to applications, server, OS, IP stack, etc.
But only people closest to the application can make that assessment. Just offering it as an possible alternative to consider.

HT4221 I really want my Apple TV, iPad and iPhone to sort them in date taken like in iPhoto on my iMac. How do I do that? Sorting on date modified seems so stupid to me, why would anyone need this? Date taken gives a timeline in your event.

I really want my Apple TV, iPad and iPhone to sort them in date taken like in iPhoto on my iMac. How do I do that? Sorting on date modified seems so stupid to me, why would anyone need this? Date taken gives a timeline in your event.

The unix commands you need are:
GetFileInfo
SetFileInfo
and maybe find
for cryptic details use the man command
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
man SetFileInfo
You may use the SetFileInfo command to set the file type & the program which will open the file.
# This little gem will do a get info on all files in a directory.
mac $ ls | xargs -I {} GetFileInfo "{}"
file: "/Users/mac/playdoc/oddadocodd"
type: ""
creator: ""
attributes: avbstclinmedz
created: 05/01/2011 14:53:22
modified: 05/01/2011 14:53:22
file: "/Users/mac/playdoc/one.docx"
type: ""
creator: ""
attributes: avbstclinmedz
created: 05/01/2011 13:57:48
modified: 05/01/2011 13:57:48
file: "/Users/mac/playdoc/oneLineFile"
type: "TEXT"
creator: "!Rch"
attributes: avbstclinmedz
created: 05/07/2011 14:27:17
modified: 05/07/2011 14:27:17
file: "/Users/mac/playdoc/oneLineFile.txt"
type: "TEXT"
creator: "!Rch"
attributes: avbstclinmedz
created: 05/07/2011 14:27:49
modified: 05/07/2011 14:27:49
file: "/Users/mac/playdoc/three.docx"
type: ""
creator: ""
attributes: avbstclinmedz
created: 05/01/2011 13:58:03
modified: 05/01/2011 13:58:03
file: "/Users/mac/playdoc/two.docx"
type: ""
creator: ""
attributes: avbstclinmedz
created: 05/01/2011 13:57:56
modified: 05/01/2011 13:57:56
file: "/Users/mac/playdoc/weirder.doc.docx"
type: ""
creator: ""
attributes: avbstclinmedz
created: 05/01/2011 14:50:03
modified: 05/01/2011 14:50:03
# well, ! is a funnie character so we escape it.
mac $ SetFile -t TEXT -c \!Rch two.docx
mac $ GetFileInfo two.docx
file: "/Users/mac/playdoc/two.docx"
type: "TEXT"
creator: "!Rch"
attributes: avbstclinmedz
created: 05/01/2011 13:57:56
modified: 05/01/2011 13:57:56
mac $
mac $ date
Sat May 7 14:40:56 EDT 2011
mac $

HT201263 My iPad 1 can only be updated to iOS 5 yet most apps run on iOS 7. Why can't I make the update on my iPad 1? Is this so I buy another iPad 2+? Now why would I want to buy something that will be obsolete in a few years?

My iPad 1 can only be updated to iOS 5 yet most apps run on iOS 7. Why can't I make the update on my iPad 1? Is this so I buy another iPad 2+? Now why would I want to buy something that will be obsolete in a few years? I really want to purchase an Live TV plan yet I need iOS 7 to run most TV apps.
Can Apple tell me why my iPad 1 is obsolete?
g

It's not obsolete as much as the first gen simply lacks the power to run the newer operating systems. IT doesn't have enough RAM. If someone managed to hack it to get iOS 6 or 7 on there they'd just have a slow, boggy and unresponsive device. (think putting windows 7 on an old laptop.
Unfortunately software moves faster than hardware. Every thing goes obsolete. I've had my ipad 2 for two and a half years now and I know it only has so much longer left to it too. Just the 'joys' of advancing technology.

Why would you want to always BCC yourself?

I know this is an arbitrary question, but I was just writing an iPhone tutorial and I saw the option, "Always BCC Myself". Apple thought it so important as to give the feature its own slider in the menu, so I wondered "who are these people who want to always BCC themselves, and why?". I find this very curious, as BCC'ing yourself is a lot like just merging your inbox and sent folder. Why would anyone want to do this.. what practical purpose does it serve.. does anyone out there know?

Some people only have POP3 email accounts. With a POP3 account, if you are using the iPhone as well as a computer email client, you may want to keep some record of messages you have sent all in one location, perhaps the computer email client. However, if you reply to someone using the iPhone, you would not have that record on the computer email client. BCC yourself provides you a copy you can pick up on the computer email client and then move to the Sent folder for a record. While this is not necessary for IMAP or Exchange, not everyone has that luxury.

Why would anyone want to use ASM Clustered File system?

DB Version: 11gR2
OS : Solaris, AIX, HP-UX
I've read about the new feature ACFS.
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/ACFS_11gR2.php
But why would anyone want to store database binaries in a separate Filesystem created by Oracle?

Hi Vitamind,
how do these binaries interact with the CPU when they want something to be done?
ACFS should work with Local OS (Solaris) to communicate with the CPU . Isn't this kind of double work?ACFS dont work with .... but provide filesystem to Local S.O
There may be extra work, but that's because there are more resources that a common filesystem.
Oracle ACFS executes on operating system platforms as a native file system technology supporting native operating system file system application programming interfaces (APIs).
ACFS is a general purpose POSIX compliant cluster file system. Being POSIX compliant, all operating system utilities we use with ext3 and other file systems can also be used with Oracle ACFS given it belongs to the same family of related standards.
ACFS Driver Model
An Oracle ACFS file system is installed as a dynamically loadable vendor operating system (OS) file system driver and tool set that is developed for each supported operating system platform. The driver is implemented as a Virtual File System (VFS) and processes all file and directory operations directed to a specific file system.
It makes sense you use the ACFS if you use some of the features below:
• Oracle RAC / RAC ONE NODE
• Oracle ACFS Snapshots
• Oracle ASM Dynamic Volume Manager
• Cluster Filesystem for regular files
ACFS Use Cases
• Shared Oracle DB home
• Other “file system” data
• External tables, data loads, data extracts
• BFILES and other data customer chooses not to store in db
• Log files (consolidates access)
• Test environments
• Copy back a previous snapshot after testing
• Backups
• Snapshot file system for point-intime backups
• General purpose local or cluster file system
• Leverage ASM manageability
Note : Oracle ACFS file systems cannot be used for an Oracle base directory or an Oracle grid infrastructure home that contains the software for Oracle Clusterware, Oracle ASM, Oracle ACFS, and Oracle ADVM components.
Regards,
Levi Pereira

Why would anybody want Sub Scription Based Music? Just curious.......

I was wondering, why would ppl want sub scription based music anyways? I mean....it's just like RENTING music, u dont exactly KEEP it. To me, i prefer to keep my music for a lifetime, which is why sometimes i still buy CDs, but i use MusicMatch mostly. I just dunno why u guys would pay $4 a month to rent music when u can pay .99 for a song that u can keep forever. I mean, in time, the company u use for Sub Scription based music will be shut down eventually, after many many years, who knows how long, and after they close down, u cannot renew ur license and well, u just wasted all that $4 a month on renting music, while i paid .99 a track and still have that music, forever and ever! Just wondering why.......

Computerking, guys like you are now the RIAA's latest excuse for copy-protected "CD"'s (I put "CD" in quotes because they're not really CD's per Philips). Read this article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2005084/a...usic_retailers
Believe me, DRM is a LOT better than copy protection; at least with most purchased DRM files you can burn a real CD (without copy protection OR installing copy-protection trojan apps). Subscription DRM doesn't let you burn, but with the ability to transfer to compatible MP3 players, it's not that big a deal as long as you can understand renting vs. owning. (It's the main reason I bought a Zen Micro.) Copy protection is making me rethink the whole idea of buying CD's--and I'm old enough to remember when vinyl and cassettes ruled the world. (8-tracks were just barely before my time.)
I think subscription music is the wave of the future because you don't spend a whole lot of money on "new" (or new to you) artists whose CDs just clutter up your collection. You can listen to new music; if you really, really like it, you can buy the CD or purchased download.
Even if you don't like the rental model, buying download tracks (even with DRM) is a wonderful antidote against having to buy a whole album for one good song; you only have to spend 99 cents (most places) for the one good song. I myself started out with downloads mainly to get rare collaborations, etc. that appear on other artists' albums, without having to buy the whole thing.
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Why would I want to use the mail icon on my dock?

Hi all,
As I'm endeavoring to further my knowledge on the Mac, I'm curious as to know if I'm losing out on not using the mail icon on my dock.
Any particular reason I should use it? I currently use yahoo and gmail. I think they're considered IMAP technology and I can access it anywhere any anyhow as long as I have access to the web. I also use my iphone to access it.
So... why would I want to use the mail icon on my dock? Are the reasons going to be for the characteristics for POP? I.E, can off load mail to my Mac and read later without having live access to web?
BTW, if I did want to setup mail on the dock. What is the incoming and outgoing mail server for yahoo? Sorry, could locate that info. in yahoo mail.
Thanks in advance.

I think you are asking why you should use the Mail application versus using "web mail" through a web browser, and not just about the Mail icon on the Dock, is that correct?
You should use whatever is more convenient.
Mail is a standalone application designed for email access, so it is more responsive and has more features. Web-based apps are getting much better, but you can still tell you are in a web browser. You can work off-line, even if you use an IMAP service (such as MobileMe). You can save emails locally, even if most emails are on the server, and if it's POP, all your messages are downloaded to a local database (that may or may not be an advantage to you).
Mail is integrated with Address Book and iCal (and other Apple apps). You can use Time Machine to recover individual deleted emails, just like you would recover deleted files or folders (using the +flying through space+ interface).

Why would I want to change JPEG quality of photos when exporting them from iPhoto?

Why would I want to change JPEG quality of photos when exporting them from iPhoto? Changing the quality of the print changes the size of the saved file and thus impacts the speed at which it is moved on the internet. But other than size of the file, what is the advantage of changing the quality?

I have no idea why you would want to do anything
Some people want lower quality to reduce file size for different reasons
It is an option - if you do pot want to do that do not use that option
LN

When someone send me a message I don't want them to no I read it I click allow this to happen when I first updated my phone but I do not want this feature how can I take it out ?

When someone send me a message I don't want them to no I read it I click allow this to happen when I first updated my phone but I do not want this feature how can I take it out ?

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Why would I want Windows on my new MacBook Air?

I have a beautiful new MacBook Air and I'm running through all the Updates etc. Then I see Bootcamp which is supposed to help me install Windows. My question is, why would I want windows? Are there things that Windows can do that Mac can't do? Or do I just need to learn what the equivalents are of the old windows programs in my new operating system eg in windows i would use explorer to search the web - on my mac i use safari - are there equivalents to microsoft word and publisher and powerpoint just in Mac language and what are they called?

. My question is, why would I want windows?
I have no idea why anyone would.
Are there things that Windows can do that Mac can't do?
No.
are there equivalents to microsoft word and publisher and powerpoint just in Mac language and what are they called?
You can buy Microsoft Office for the Mac, but you should consider a number of better alternatives to Microsoft's bloatware. Some are free.
Consider
LibreOffice (donation-supported)
NeoOffice ($10 but older version is free if you can find it)
OpenOffice (donation-supported)
Numbers ($19.99)
Keynote ($19.99)
Pages ($19.99)
I use Numbers and Pages and have been completely Microsoft - free for years. Life is better without Microsoft.

Flashed BIOS, now there's a BIOS password? Why would Toshiba do this?

Failed BIOS update bricked my customer's Toshiba P205-S3647. Upon reflashing from USB floppy at boot, I am now presented with a BIOS password that was not previously there. I've searched high and low but cannot find the Toshiba default password. I flashed to an earlier BIOS ROM but same problem. Why would Toshiba do this? Please help!

There is no default BIOS password, and Toshiba didn't do that. That sounds like an error of some sort. Unfortunately, you'll need to have it serviced.
- Peter

"System Default" kind of wipe: possible? How would one do this?

Would it be possible to take an existing installation and effectively reinstall all packages, restore all configuration files to their default config as if on a new install on that program, and wipe all user data (probably not in that order) so as to restore a system to a kind of "first boot" setting but with your current package listing retained.
How would one go about this? Could one slip into a terminal, sudo rm -r /some/folders/here (what folders necessary?) and then use pacman to reinstall ... everything (what kind of command would get you that? something with a grep listing?)

karol wrote:
r3bel wrote:
karol wrote:
Unless you use a ton of system-wide configs ;P
The problem of using a backup or hard drive image of your pristine installation is that Arch changes pretty fast and a 6-month-old installation would need a bit of work to get up to speed.
Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldnt a pacman -Syu do most of the job?
Depends on what changed in Arch in the meantime, what changes you made and what do you mean by 'most of the job'.
Let's say you've made your backup a couple months ago and now you want to move from grub-legacy to syslinux, install KDE and try systemd. If you revert to said backup in a month, you will have to do a few important changes "manually" because at the time of that backup you were using grub, initscripts and e.g. Gnome.
Reverting to the "clean slate" backup, updating it and making a fresh backup once you've tested the new configuration shouldn't be much of a problem but it's not automatic. You may need to perform some manual conflict resolution etc. (see the home page).
This is exactly why I wanted to strip the system clean and let the programs act as if this were a new install, without changing my partition table, have to download 12 gigs of data, etc. Reinstall the system without a format. Some of these changes that needed manual adjustment have caused a bit of a headache, it would be nice to have a nuclear option without having to reinstall. Especially now that AIF isn't around anymore I'd have to have a second computer to tell me what commands to run just to get things going again...

Why would I want to visit other Cafes?

QuestionWhy would I want to visit other Cafes?
AnswerVisting other player's cafes allows you to see the decorating skills of your friends! Not to mention, there's something in it for both of you!
You (and the cafe owner) earn chips and XP for visiting other cafes and trying their food.
The higher your level, the more awards per visit.
Note: you are limited to visiting 10 cafes per day

I have no idea why you would want to do anything
Some people want lower quality to reduce file size for different reasons
It is an option - if you do pot want to do that do not use that option
LN

I am a new user. I was told that for maximum safety while surfing the web to enable "no script." Why would I want to do this and how do you do it? Thank You..... David

I was told by a computer security expert to select "no script" for my Mozilla Firefox browser which I just downloaded. How is this beneficial? He told me that there are programs out there {malware?} that can actually take over my computer and send out emails and that I would not even be aware of this? Does this browser help prevent this sort of thing from happening?

For a good definition of malware with introductory information about related topics read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware and for some''' simple tips '''http://www.mozilla.org/security/#Tips_for_secure_browsing
Firefox does have some security related features that you may use see for instance
* http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/
* [[site identity button]] <-- '''clickable links '''-- (blue text) ---
*[[Protecting stored passwords using a master password]]
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* [[firewalls]]
* malware can cause severe problems, see [[is my firefox problem a result of malware]]
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